The End of Line: Writing the End of Caprica

There were many possible endings to this story. I will go through the ideas of each of them and why I decided against them.

Ending 1: Laura Roslin
The earliest idea I had for an ending would be for the Final Five to re-program Zoe to believe she was Laura Roslin. This idea was supposed to be a Romeo and Juliet sort of ending to the Adama/ Graystone feud.
As I looked into the back story of Laura Roslin though, there were just too many things standing in the way. Least of these problems was that, as fara as we know, Laura Roslin is geneetically related to her mother as both wind up dying of cancer. Then there was the problem of Gaius Baltar's Cylon detector and the fact that the idea just seemed like something that would wind up in a fan fiction and I was trying to go for a non fan-ficy fan-fiction.

Ending 2: Leaders of the Centurions
The second alternate ending would see Zoe Graystone and Tamara Adama leading the Cylon race to a new home. This idea was the one I was going with for the longest.
The problem with the idea was giving the story some diversity. I had been putting argument after argument into the story between Tamara and Zoe and just decided that, Tamara wasn't going to go off into space with Zoe quietly so I decided that both characters wind up on Earth instead of 'Cylon World'.

Ending 3: The 'Fun' Ending
This is the current ending. The idea to end with Zoe telling Lee Adama her story came from my love of stories that come full circle and the idea in the Messenger meeting epilogue that Caprica was a part of genetic memory. In the end though, I decided that we've had enough dark death and arguments and I should just have fun with the ending.

Evolution of a Character: Lucifer Revisited.

Here's a quick look at the character of Lucifer in Chapter 15.
For anyone who hasn't read chapter 15 go here.
 http://www.wattpad.com/story/1402648-caprica-zoe
The idea of including a revisit of Lucifer from the original BSG was going to be a joke in the form of the name of a random Centurion in what later became the next chapter, but I decided to further flesh the character out into the manic lunatic that we now see.
The idea was to think of what he would be like as an actual person, then to completely rethink his personality. The cloak became a black suit with gold pin striping. The glowing cranium became a chrome hat that is meant to be reminiscent of a Cylon Centurion's head.
The idea of his obsession with pentagons came from the need to explain how the coaxial pentagons on the wings of Cylon Raiders became the Cylon logo. Then there was the idea of symbols in the series, the idea that Tamara Adama had her signature in V-world so Zoe needed her own. The joining of these ideas turned Lucifer into Zoe's biggest fan who is an insane Cylon put in charge of both Caprica and Caprica's V-world.
The influences on how I wrote the character were David Tennant's rambling and Michael Sheen's cane twirling from TRON.
In this story, the I-L series is the dog walking Cylon from the shape of things to come.

All in all, Lucifer wrote himself and deeply integrated himself into the story.

Chapter 9

Things speed up and we see the return of Tamara Adama in chapter 9.
http://www.wattpad.com/4939337-caprica-zoe-chapter-9-an-imperious-rising
And remember to sign the petition for a real season 2 of Caprica.
http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/caprica-for-season-2/sign.html

Chapters 7 and 8

I've uploaded chapters 7 and 8 of my fan fiction.
http://www.wattpad.com/4898977-caprica-zoe-chapter-7-currency-fo-the-realm
http://www.wattpad.com/4918040-caprica-zoe-chapter-8-nostalgia-tour